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People decide. Agent colleagues do the work. Nine faces of people at work, and the line: we designed our agent threshold model to ensure that anything with real world consequences stops with a named person.

People decide. Agent colleagues do the work.

Safe and responsible AI · 14 September 2026

There are lots of takes on AI development this morning, and it would be easy to slip into commentary about regulating frontier models without really adding to the debate.

At QuantumColleagues, we thought about the human operating model from the start and were clear alongside our clients that our work is about amplifying the outputs of teams and focusing on what really matters rather than replacing people.

Our regulator-specific threshold model, built into our client agents, determines what agents can and can’t do autonomously, with no exceptions. Anything with real world consequences stops with a named person, and their decision is logged against them.

If you’re about to kick off work in this area and have worries about aligning it with your people strategy or regulatory requirements, get in touch and see if we can help.

Page 2: every agent colleague works inside a written role. Four points on how the threshold model works. Page 3: ask one question before any other, who decides? Talk to us at quantumcolleagues.org.
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